Oedipus Tyrannus

Sophocles

Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 1: The Oedipus Tyrannus. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1887.

  1. Am I right?
Creon
  1. You are. I have brought this about, for I knew the joy which you have long had from them—the joy you now have.
Oedipus
  1. Bless you, and for this errand may the god prove a kinder guardian to you than he has to me.
  2. My children, where are you? Come, here, here to the hands of the one whose mother was your own, the hands that have made your father’s once bright eyes to be such orbs as these—his, who seeing nothing, knowing nothing,